The United States and Global Human Rights
A three-day international conference, 11-13 November 2004

The Rothermere American Institute is pleased to host an international conference examining the role of the United States in promoting and/or weakening human rights around the globe. Despite – or perhaps because of – its strong rights tradition, the USA has recently come under fire from the international community for abrogating human rights in its wide-ranging anti-terrorist campaign. The question of America’s historic relationship to global human rights is one full of ambiguities and ambivalence and thus merits close examination. What are human rights in the U.S. view? Have they been redefined since 9/11? What impact has recent American foreign policy had on its ability to promote an external human rights policy? Does the US preference for unilateralist action weaken its ability to promote an external human rights policy and to contribute to the further development of the international human rights regime? Or do rights properly belong under the protection of nations rather than international institutions?

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